Usually means: Yielding to control or supervision.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. docility: Merriam-Webster
  2. docility: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. docility: Collins English Dictionary
  4. docility: Vocabulary.com
  5. Docility, docility: Wordnik
  6. docility: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. docility: Wiktionary
  8. Docility, docility: Dictionary.com
  9. Docility: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. docility: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. docility: Rhymezone
  12. Docility: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. docility: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. docility: FreeDictionary.org
  15. docility: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. docility: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. docility: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The quality of being docile.

Similar:
docileness, docibleness, tractability, manageableness, undocility, aptness, docity, demureness, tameableness, indocility, more...

Opposite:
belligerence, aggressiveness, hostility, ferocity

Types:
docile, docilely, docility's, more...

Adjectives:
such, great, perfect, apparent, much, extreme, like, childlike, political, utmost, complete

Colors:
    pale blue,     soft pink,     pastel yellow,     mint green,     baby blue, more...

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Similar:
docileness, docibleness, tractability, manageableness, undocility, aptness, docity, demureness, tameableness, indocility, more...

Opposite:
belligerence, aggressiveness, hostility, ferocity

Types:
docile, docilely, docility's, more...

Adjectives:
such, great, perfect, apparent, much, extreme, like, childlike, political, utmost, complete

Colors:
    pale blue,     soft pink,     pastel yellow,     mint green,     baby blue, more...



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